>> they told me last year at the tucson festival of books, i was stopped by a tv camera crew, one of those gotcha moments, you know. what do you feel about superintendent blah, blah, blah going to ban "the devil's highway"? i said what? why? and the reporter said, well, it's been called anti-american, and it has "devil" in the title. and i thought, you know, this is a comedy, right? it's ridiculous. anti-american? you know, it's being taught to border patrol agents at the academy. so if it's good enough for the border patrol, they're hardly marxist, you know, invaders. and i said, as far as "devil" in the title, it's on the map. are you really going to try to change history and remove things that you don't like off the maps? you can't do that. and i didn't take it seriously. so later on, this thing happened. now, the tucson unified school district's take on this is that you weren't banned, you were boxed. >> what do they mean by that? >> they didn't really ban it. they just took it out of brown hands. they banned mexicans, basically. they got rid of mexican-american studies. they put

for example, i use the nfa report to compare their statistical data in the incidents that i have in tucson. this capability allows me to prepare for the future threats to my citizens. the budget has been reduced 25% over the past decade. fiscal year 2013 homeland security budget would cut the budget by an additional 2.5%. this will reduce classes, eliminate many important programs. they will also cancel the final stages of the infers modernization effort. my organization's urged congress to restore the funding to usfa fiscal year 2011 budget of only $45 million is not a large federal spending program, however, the agency playing a role in the governmental function of protecting the american public. we would like to express the support for the efforts to clarify the non fire incidents in the emergency support function number four, the firefighting annex. usfa and the forest service have a memorandum of understanding which allows the usfa to act as a support agency. local fire departments work well with the forest certificaservic coordinating for wild land fires. however, based on its relati

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among those testifying, jim krichley with the tucson, arizona, fire department as the chief. he's also the police of the western fire chiefs association mean was joined by ernest mitchell from the u.s. fire administration and john hall from the national fire protection association. >> there's been a lot of discussion about resources, and i understand that over the course of a number of different years that the authorization level has been up to $70 million for the usfa and then the appropriations actually came in much lower than that. and i think in the 2013 house funding bill, basically it provides $42.46 million, which is right about the same level that the request from the president in his budget. i know that that's not the level that you would like, but i do think that this hearing has been very informative to see what the priorities of the usfa and how we can support your endeavors in very tough budgetary times. i think that providing an authorization level that is much higher than when really we can afford, i think is a little bit irresponsible. but i do want to continu

details. >> reporter: police say they scaled back the search for isabelle seles they believe was abducted. music's friends and friends of friends from tucson here to oakland have get toen together to raise money to fine her in the building behind me, the finishing touches are being put on a song they hope will help. ♪ >> this is a youtube video put together by several arizona musicians and artists. the video was made in an effort to find this girl. she has been missing since april 20th. her parents say they found a window to her bedroom ohm and a screen pushed aside when they went to check on her. >> music producers here have made a professional mix of the music in order to cut a c.d. that will be sold to raise funds to find isabelle. they have donated the mix and studio time. >> was heartbroken about sierra lamar, a local girl we're still looking for so when the case came from arizona, felt close to home. >> the video on youtube has gotten 15,000 hits. the pajama music studio hopes this finds the suspected abductor. >> we hope she will be returned. >> the tucson police announced they will scale back their search and concentrate on other e

i use the report to compare their statistics in the incidents that i have in tucson. this capability aloes me to prepare for the future threats to my citizens. the budget has been reduced 25% over the past decade. fiscal year 2013 would cut the budget by an additional 2.5%. this will reduce classes, eliminate many important programs. they will also cancel the final stages of the infers modernization effort. fiscal year 2011 budget of only 45 million is not a large federal spending program, however, the agency playing a role in the governmental function of protecting the public. we would like to express the efforts to clarify then non fire incidents. there is understanding which allows the fa to act as a support agency. local fire departments work well for wild land fires. however, based on its relationship with the nation's fire and emergency services, we think the mou should continue with the sfa playing a stronger role in struckal events. in addition, we support the establishment of teams of firefighters that can quick ly deploy in the event of a major all hazards di

jeeves critchley represents the tucson fire department in my home state of arizona and also currently serves as the president of the western fire chiefs association. our final witness is mr. kevin o'connor, assistant to the general prison for the international association of firefighters. thank you again to the witnesses for being here today. as the witnesses should know, spoken testimony is limited to five minutes each. after all witnesses of spoken, members of the committee will have five minutes each to ask questions. i now recognize the first witness, the united states fire administrator, ernest mitchell. >> good morning, chairman quayle to the crosby, ranking member edwards and members of the committee. my name is ernest mitchell, jr. of the emergency management agency and the united states fire administrator in charge of the united states fire administration at the department of homeland security. it is indeed an honor to appear before you today to discuss the u.s. fire had fenestration. the fire administration is committed to providing national leadership to foster a solid foun

first of all, commissioner fewer's comment, and i will say there was a robust conversation with the tucson school board member, and a former cube chair. mr. corona, what was his name? commissioner: he is a board member in indiana. commissioner murase: so it was a packed session, and it had a national school boards association. everyone is looking at that. it is not just the ethnic studies. it is how the governor and other folks, impacting the school. i believe more information will be coming on that topic. commissioner fewer, i will ask her to review one of those copies of "precious knowledge." and secondly, i wanted to thank supervisor david campos for really working so hard on the free muni issue, and what was passed at the mta was for low- income students, but i know tomorrow, this is how much follow-up needs to happen. he will be speaking, the programming and allegations committee for transportation in oakland regarding this topic, and i will be there as well as listening and offering my opinion to support his work, but i definitely want to thank supervisor campos, his staff, and all o

. >> the storm hit the tucson area creating havoc. drivers were warned to take extra precaution because of a sudden appearance of limited or zero visibility. to southwest airlines flights had to be delayed. >> they get hit with these and they are terrible for your car's paint job. it just sandblasts the side of your car. in the bay area we are bottoming out and it doesn't look like it will be that bad. only upward from here as we head into the weekend. a couple of patches of fog at the coast line. temperatures in the '40's and '50's. well into the 80s in the warmer spots. the ridge is sliding to the south and the trough is camped out. we're catching a sea breeze. that patch of fog will try to break up and as we head to the afternoon, even the coastline looking at sunshine. big changes in the weather as you see 60s there. numbers today, not bad. 83 degrees in san jose. upper 80s towards brentwood and antioch. 84 degrees in the napa valley. '60s and '70s, plenty of sunshine. the next couple of days, high pressure will begin to stick bac

chief critchley represents the tucson fire department in arizona and serves as the president of the western fire chiefs association. our final witness is mr. kevin o'connor. thank you again for to our witnesses for being here today. as our witness, no spoken testimony is limited to five minutes each. after witnesses have spoken. members will have five minutes to answer questions. i now recognize earnest mitchell. >> good morning, chairman quyale, ranking members. it is indeed an honor to appear before you today to discuss the u.s. fire administration. the fire administration is committed to providing national leadership to fostering a solid -- stakeholders in prevention, prepardness and response. in my testimony, i will share an overview of the core functions, major priorities, present activities and goals. despite making progress over time, have been higher than in most of the industrialized world. this has held true in both fire deaths and dollar loss rates. thousands of americans die each year and thousands more are injured. average annual fire losses greatly exceed those from floods, hu

they say they feel the police are keeping them at bay with the investigation and the tucson police chief says they are keeping much of the information close to the vest for right now. >>> a family near orlandoo is forced out of their -- orlando is being forced out of their home due to a sink hole. it is 50 feet deep and it's growing. that family says the ground just opened up overnight swallow in four trees and a hammock and they moved in two months ago. neighbors have been warned the searching hole could be threatening their homes as well. >>> there's no lack of things to do for the weekend. one big event is the towson town prink festival tomorrow and sunday and abc2 is a proud sponsor and you can meet some of us. stop by the booth in downtown towson. the festival is form from 10 to 7 and sunday 1 to 7 meg and and i will be there at 10 -- megan and i will be there at 10 and lynette at 12:30. >>> it's anticipated to be a block buster in u.s. theaters. we will look at how much the action film brought in. also, online dating sites are the rage for humans. now, we can match our fluffy and f

also on the web -- correspondence from the tucson unified school district. by that? >> they didn't really ban it. they just took it out of brown hands. they banned mexicans basically. they got rid of mexican-american studies. they put all of the books that they took away from the students, they boxed them and put them away. the catch-22 seems to be that anybody who's not from that ethnic studies world could teach it, but that there would be disciplinary action as i understand it if anyone complains about those being taught. so in essence they've been, what i call a soft-banning. they're out of the picture. >> in the interest of a fair and open discussion, we invited urrea to respond to the school district's objections to our conversation. you'll find both letters at billmoyers.com. coming up on "moyers and company," how you can help america reckon with torture. >> hi, i'm doug liman and i'm asking you to help me direct the movie "reckoning with torture," which uses the government's own documents to tell the inside story of america's torture program. >> i'm r

the area around her home. >> ama: it's been two weeks since a tucson, arizona, girl disappeared. police have chased hundreds of leads in the search for little is -- isabella feliz. some bay area music producers are lending a hand. ♪ >> this youtube video was put together by several arizona musicians and artists who are friends of the missing girl's family. a unique effort to find isabella feliz. her parents found her bedroom window open and the screen pushed aside. >> i wanted to be sitting in my room crying and it was hard enough to be with my family,. >> reporter: in order to help the family, the musicians contacted music producers in oakland. this video has a rough mix of the music andly -- lyrics, and the final professional south mix was donated. >> sometimes i think musicians can help in unusual ways because a lot of people listen to music that don't pay attention to newspapers and things like that. >> reporter: music andly kicks are had felt, written by members of the family. >> we have just scaled back in of hour personnel. >> reporter: the tucson police announced a change

the wild weather hit the tucson area yesterday creating some havoc with air quality, travel, at outdoor events. the state even warned drivers to take extra precautions because of limited or zero visibility. to southwest airlines flights and had to be delayed. this is pretty typical in arizona, as happens at least once a year? >> yes again thunderstorms rolling through and it is very dusty. and then you get that. around the bay area today, we're looking at patchy fog along the coastline. clear skies and the valley. another decent de all of these temperatures down a little bit in the '40's and 50's. cool inland to start by the afternoon we are on the warm side as we see the temperatures soaring into the 80s. some eighties in the santa clara valley. and we should get some sunshine along the coastline in the afternoon. but the ridge is kind of backing off. along the west coast we have a cool sea breeze. not enough to drop the temperatures that much. many of these numbers from 5 to 10 degrees above the average. patchy fog dissipating in the afternoon and we're left with sunshine along the be

. >> yeah, harris, good evening, the tucson arizona border patrol sector has gone through the repatriationurning them back to the original point of entrance, they're put on buses to neighboring california and texas and once arrived, processed aen then deported. and agents say one of the overall goals is cut off supply to the coyotes who are very active and particularly aggressive along the arizona-mexico border. >> these sluggers in arizona are taking the people through some of the worst terrain you can imagine and they don't care about them and that's the hard truth. >> it also reduces recitivism rates according to the department of homeland security, an illegal immigrant is 14% likely to try crossing the border again if they are moved. but some critics don't buy the humanitarian argument being made by the u.s. government, in fact, some say it's the fed's fault they're in that spot in the first place. >> it's like pushing someone into a pool and then diving in to say them and say you're now a life saver because you saved this person, but you're the one that pushed them into that danger in

. >> in order to help the family find her, musician friends in tucson contacted music producers in oaklandis is rough mix of the lyrics and music. they donated the final professional sound mix. a finished dvd will be sold to raise funds. >> sometimes musicians can help in unusual ways because a lot of people listen to music that don't pay attention to newspapers and things like that. ♪ ♪ >> music and lyrics having been written people close to the family. they believe tucson police can use their help. >> that doesn't mean we have abandoned the search. >> they announced a change in tactics, they are working with the f.b.i. and concentrate on surveillance video like this that was taken at the time of the abduction. >> here at home the search for sierra lamar will focus on san jose this week. 15-year-old disappeared on her way to school a month and a half ago. dive teams will resume their search at reservoirs. they are treating her disappearance as an abduction. volunteer z are still searching the area around her home. >> this morning the 79 fewer guns in east palo alto. they were turned in ye

but after launching another extensive search of the tucson area. vestigators say they do believe the girl was forcibly taken from her home. police have not said what evidence led them to change their mind about the case. and they have not named any suspects. >>> investigators say they have interviewed more than 500 sex offenders and waded through more than 1,000 tips. >>> another tragic turn in the deadly shooting of a family outside an ohio restaurant. a 10-year-old girl, critically injured in the shooting has died. outside the cracker barrel in cleveland, kayla allen's father shot her and also killed her younger sister and mother. police shot and killed kevin allen at the scene. he was apparently upset his wife told him she was leaving him. >>> residents have installed bars to prevent break-ins in harris county. but now, the homeowners association say they must come down. apparently the bars hurt the property values. neighbors say they're worried about safety, after recent thefts in the area. >> my neighbor across the street. they break the back d

. >>> police searching for isabel celis, the tucson 6-year-old who disappeared five weeks ago, have releasedveal they found what appeared to be blood on the girl's bedroom floor. detectives also photographed shoe impressions on and around an electrical box behind the home, and police say they found a vinyl shower curtain with dark stains in a car outside the home. >>> four to eight inches of rain could fall today on parts of florida and georgia. right now they are being lashed by beryl, which made landfall near jacksonville beach early this morning, with near-hurricane strength winds. the storm threatens the possibility of flooding and snarled traffic as the summer season gets under way. >>> across the united states on this memorial day, americans are honoring fallen warriors and service personnel. president obama is also paying tribute to the nation's military. he's taking part in a wreath laying at arlington national cemetery and the vietnam veteran's memorial. >>> if your holiday includes a cookout here's one hazard you might not be aware of. a new jersey man who thought he had appendicit